Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6500 XT

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsGP106 (GP106-300-A1)
Fab Process6 nmvs16 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders1024vs1152
Compute Units16vs9
Core clock2200 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs64vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
TDP107 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs18 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better